City of Toronto Skyline - LEGO Architecture

I have long admired the beauty of Toronto's unique skyline. As I refined my LEGO building techniques over the past few years, it became a personal goal to recreate this skyline in as fine detail as possible. I hope the fans of the fantastic LEGO Architecture series can share in that beauty.

When I set out to create this model, I realized there are certain buildings and landmarks that must be included - Skydome (currently called Rogers Centre), the CN Tower, Toronto City Hall and Nathan Phillips Square, and the Royal York. When the details began to take shape, though, Ripley's Aquarium and Roundhouse Park fit so well at the base of the CN Tower, and Union Station was the perfect 'partner' for the Royal York.

When it came to the east end, though, it was difficult choosing just one representative from the city's Financial District. First Canadian Place certainly stands out. However, there is such a variety of architectural styles in that section of the city, with each requiring a slightly different technique to assemble in LEGO! So, rather than pick just one, I instead went with a grouping of the most prominent ones. I think this gives the final model more flavor, makes it much more fun to build, and overall, it's more interesting to display.

In this new edit of the project, from January 15, 2023, the CN Tower is slightly taller now. As I built the real physical model (see the Updates page), I found that it not only scales better with the rest of the skyline, but this was necessary for the ring of microwave dishes (the white "donut" at the base of the Skypod) to fit without stressing the three 1x8 tiles at the top of the tower shaft too much. Check out the animation that shows the viewing deck rotate (note, it doesn't rotate on its own)! Also, Rogers Centre (aka Skydome) has been rescaled to be slightly smaller/more rounder, and I shifted the position of Scotia Plaza so that it's more accurate. Overall, I think this is the best version of the model so far!